. Railroad digest . lways of the United States used onan average 20 locomotives and cars per 100 miles of line:that 58,488 passengers were carried, and 1,626,179 passengermiles accomplished per passenger locomotive; and that 51,013tons of freight were carried and 6,556,731 ton miles accom-plished per freight locomotive. Both locomotives and cars being embraced in the term equip-ment it appears that the total equipment of the railways onthe date referred to was 1,488,501, Of this number 1,005,729were fitted with train brakes, the increase in this item being197,655, and 1,404,132 were fitte
. Railroad digest . lways of the United States used onan average 20 locomotives and cars per 100 miles of line:that 58,488 passengers were carried, and 1,626,179 passengermiles accomplished per passenger locomotive; and that 51,013tons of freight were carried and 6,556,731 ton miles accom-plished per freight locomotive. Both locomotives and cars being embraced in the term equip-ment it appears that the total equipment of the railways onthe date referred to was 1,488,501, Of this number 1,005,729were fitted with train brakes, the increase in this item being197,655, and 1,404,132 were fitted with automatic couplers, theincrease being 266,413. Practically all locomotives and cars in the passenger servicewere fitted with train brakes, and of 9,863 locomotives assignedto that service 7,431 were fitted with automatic all passenger cars were fitted with automatic respect to freight equipment, it is noted that nearly allfreight locomotives were equipped with train brakes and 75. ARRANGEMENT OF iDDS LOCOMOTIVE: IPANESE GOVERNMENT RAILl 302 RAILROAD DIGEST August, 1901 pel- (ent of them with automatic couplers; the correspondingfiguie one year previous was 45 per cent. Of 1,365,531 cars inthe freight sc rvice June 30, 1900, 920,465 were fitted with trainliraliPs. and ,559 with automatic couplers. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. The total number of casualties to persons on account of rail-way accidents during the year ending June 30, 1900, was 58, aggregate number of persons killed in consequence of rail-way accidents during the year was 7,805, and the number in-jured was 50,320. Of railway employees, 2,550 were killed and39,643 Injured. The casualties to employees resulting fromcoupling and uncoupling cars were: Number killed, 282; in-jured, 5,229. The corresponding figures for the preceding yearwere: Killed, 260; injured, 6,765. The number of passengers killed during the year was 249,and the number injured 4,128. The corresponding figures fo
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